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The Criminal is a book by Havelock Ellis published in 1890. A third revised and enlarged edition was subsequently published in 1901. [1] [2] [3] The book is a comprehensive English summary of the main results of criminal anthropology, [4] a field of study which was scarcely known at the time of the publication of the volume.
Anthropometric data sheet (both sides) of Alphonse Bertillon, a pioneer in anthropological criminology. Anthropological criminology (sometimes referred to as criminal anthropology, literally a combination of the study of the human species and the study of criminals) is a field of offender profiling, based on perceived links between the nature of a crime and the personality or physical ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Crime and Custom in Savage Society is a 1926 book by anthropologist ... Full text of Crime and Custom in ...
The book deals with the practical applications of criminality and includes three parts. The first part is concerned with criminal anthropology and is an explanation of different categories of criminals as well as the psychology of criminals. This first part is a review of Lombroso's work and focusses on the physical characteristics of criminals.
Cannibals and Kings (1977, ISBN 0-394-40765-2) is a book written by American anthropologist Marvin Harris. [1] The book presents a systematic discussion of ideas about the reasons for a culture making a transition by stages from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to hierarchically based states as population density increases.
Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884–1920 is a 2004 book about the early career of Polish-British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, written by Michael W. Young and published by Yale University Press.
Cesare Lombroso (/ l ɒ m ˈ b r oʊ s oʊ / lom-BROH-soh, [1] [2] US also / l ɔː m ˈ-/ lawm-; [3] Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare lomˈbroːzo, ˈtʃɛː-,-oːso]; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology.
[12] [13] An early book, The Social Basis of Criminal Justice, was reviewed in 2006 in the Justice Quarterly. [14] His introductory texts have been dubbed "The Gold Standard" among criminal justice texts by his publisher, Pearson Publishing. [15] Schmalleger is also an active "ham" radio operator, holding the call sign K3UND. [16]